Incoming: Ryan Bingham – Roadhouse Sun
Ryan Bingham – Roadhouse Sun
Release: June 2, 2009
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Purchase: Amazon
From the bio:
…and plenty of reason to stop for a moment to dig in his heels and take a stand.
That’s exactly what the Texas-bred troubadour does on his second Lost Highway album, Roadhouse Sun, a hardscrabble collection that’s at once unblinkingly personal and unapologetically political – the latter a new and bracingly vivid addition to Bingham’s palette. The expanded consciousness bursts to the surface of several cuts on Roadhouse Sun – nowhere more movingly than on “Dylan’s Hard Rain”, a stark look into the darker corners of an America in which the storm its namesake sang of has blown through.
Tracklist:
- Day is Done
- Dylan’s Hard Rain
- Tell My Mother I Miss Her So
- Country Roads
- Bluebird
- Snake Eyes
- Endless Ways
- Change Is
- Rollin Highway Blues
- Hey Hey Hurray
- Roadhouse Blues
- Wishing Well
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June 2, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I don’t like this album quite as much as Mescalito, but it’s still pretty damn good, especially while Amazon has it discounted.
June 2, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I think I like it better actually. It just seems more focused. I will say that its nowhere near a country record, as Mescalito was for the most part…
June 7, 2009 at 11:21 am
I just listened to it. The political crap was stupid. Was he taking philosophy classes at the junior college? He sounds more and more like a copycat.
October 21, 2009 at 10:44 am
I think Ryan Bingham is the most over-rated guy in the world! His lyrics are moronic. If you look up cliche in the dictionary, it has a definition…and it describes his act and his BS songs perfectly. I want to puke over how many people are fawning over this hack. The words in this comment are more meaningful and deep than anything Bingham has ever written.
October 21, 2009 at 11:07 am
I disagree profoundly. While he is no Townes Van Zandt, he is also no Carrie Underwood or Rodney Atkins. While the second album was not as strong as the first, I found good moments on it. Plus I give him major props for also being from New Mexico.
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